{"id":506184,"date":"2026-06-18T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:11:10","slug":"grand-theft-auto-vi-cover-and-pre-order-date-revealed-in-new-viral-video-months-before-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506184\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto VI Cover and Pre-Order Date Revealed in New Viral Video Months Before Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Video game fans were given a treat on Thursday morning, as the official cover art for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI was <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EiQEBYDox_k\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In addition to releasing the cover art, Rockstar Games announced that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will begin on June 25, ahead of the Nov. 19 release date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Grand Theft Auto VI will be the eighth installment of the legendary video game series, and it&#8217;s the first release since GTA V dropped in 2013. The game has been in development for a number of years, and its release date has already been delayed twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick recently spoke to\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@theschoolofhardknocks\/video\/7651676011813260574?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The School of Hard Knocks<\/a>\u00a0on TikTok and confirmed that GTA VI is still on track for a Nov. 19 release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;The team at Rockstar really does seek to do something that&#8217;s never been done before. That&#8217;s really hard, and it takes a long time,&#8221; he said (h\/t\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-release-date-confirmed-again-by-ceo-who-also-explains-why-its-taking-so-long\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Makuch<\/a>\u00a0of GameSpot.com).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\"><a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/joshchapmanb_gta-vi-we-predict-that-gta-vi-will-generate-ugcPost-7348478344025251840-JNCp\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Chapman<\/a>\u00a0of Konvoy estimated that GTA VI will sell 25 million copies on its launch day alone. He added that Take-Two will likely break even on its $2 billion investment into the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Longtime video game fans are inching closer to finally getting to experience the newest edition of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and Thursday&#8217;s cover art reveal will only generate more excitement for those looking to pre-order the game next week before it officially drops this fall.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video game fans were given a treat on Thursday morning, as the official cover art for the highly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-506184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}